Freedom has its price.
In a country where people have so much freedom they don’t even know what to do with it all, all it takes is a story like this to put it all in perspective.
A couple in Sweden are in a court battle wit the Swedish government because they won’t allow them to name their daughter Metallica.
Right or wrong, you don’t have the right to name your child anything you want in Sweden.
Personally I think they are better for it.
I am all for freedom but damn, when does freedom get to the point where it begins to tip the scale over to the anarchy side?
All baby names in Sweden must be registered, and in order to be registered you must get the blessings of the Swedish National Tax Board.
And they aren’t having it.
See, naming your child things like “Dinosaur Audio” is a right you absolutely don’t have in Sweden.
Just like in France, you can’t throw a party with a theme that is in bad taste and in Germany, you can’t say that you think Hitler was misunderstood, in Sweden you can’t name your child “Little Nigga”.
Freedom has its price, and apparently part of paying for freedom is putting up with parents naming their children ESPN.
Why should we care? It’s not my kid right? Who is it hurting?
Yeah, you keep saying that. Then when your little bundle of job comes to school one day with a fully automatic assault rifle after being teased everyday of his life and shoots up the entire school then I will ask you how harmless was it to name your kid Courvoisier.
And I always though black Americans were the worst at this.
I have heard of black children being named everything from Bacardi, Lexus, Livonia Cinema, Toyota, Hennessy and everything in between.
But when I heard that a white friend of mine was thinking of naming their daughter Cowgirl Bungee Cord that is when I realized this phenomenon was is bigger than I thought.
Where is our tax board here in the United States of America when you need one?
I thought you had to be wealthy to name your child after things like rock groups, science fiction characters or alcoholic beverages?
Moon Unit won’t ever have to put that name down on an application at Target.
She won’t ever feel the full brunt of what Frank Zappa did to her.